Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 949 The Red Carpet… (23)

The term "genre film" actually refers to a type of movie, also known as a story film.
Films with a standardized aesthetic form dominated by narrative…

These kinds of films are usually not unique, nor can they be considered avant-garde.

To put it simply, genre films can be seen as a type of non-artwork that is repeated, imitated, copied, and mass-produced, with the aim of earning greater box office profits.

Generally speaking, film festivals are unlikely to award prizes to genre films!

Parasite is an absurdist crime film...

In the original timeline, the 71st Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or was awarded to Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Shoplifters"...

To be honest, Shoplifters is really bad!

Hirokazu Kore-eda's films have always been very healing. He filmed "Our Little Sister," a work about marginalized people, with great beauty. But with "Shoplifters," all that's left is emotion.

In other words, he messed it up!
He depicted a scattered and deliberate story with a self-righteous attitude.

The paragraphs are brilliant, but the overall tone is weak; the characters are only briefly mentioned, and the emotions are fleeting…

The plot is cheap, straightforward and awkward, and there is not a single emotion in the entire film that comes from the creator's heart.

Even the most hateful people have their pitiable aspects. If neither the hateful nor the pitiable aspects are adequately described, how can the characters be believable?

It falls far short of films like "Nobody Knows," "Still Walking," "Like Father, Like Son," and even "After the Storm," all directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and exploring the complex and intertwined relationships between people...

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Parasite is very important to Cannes!
Beyond the film's quality, the cast and crew are truly impressive.

Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Connelly, including Regina Hull and Mahershala Ali…

They're all Hollywood stars!
Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Javier Bardem, and Mahershala Ali are all Oscar-caliber actors…

The first two won Best Actor and Best Actress awards respectively for "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Gravity," while the latter two won Best Supporting Actor awards for "No Country for Old Men" and "Moonlight."

With director Shen Yan added, white, black, and Asian people are all gathered together!

Political correctness is perfect...

The "Parasite" cast unsurprisingly received the most attention on the red carpet...

Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Mahershala Ali, Regina Hull, and Jennifer Connelly are all making their Cannes debut!
In fact, Gus Van Sant's "The Sea of ​​Trees," starring Matthew McConaughey, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2014…

Gus Van Sant is a renowned American independent film director, best known for films such as *My Own Private Idaho* and *Good Will Hunting*. He won the Best Director award at the 56th Cannes Film Festival for his early crime film *Elephant*.

However, "Aokigahara Forest" is terrible!

Matthew probably sensed it during the shoot... which is why he didn't appear at Cannes...

Javier Bardem is the only one who is a regular at Cannes!
He won the Best Actor award at Cannes in 2010 for his role in "Biutiful"!
In addition, Will Bardem won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award twice for his roles in "The Sea Inside" and "Before Night Falls"...

He's never won the Berlin Film Festival's Best Actor award...

Why have I never received it?

Because none of the films he starred in were nominated for the Berlin Film Festival…

By the way, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, as the lead actors in "Everybody Knows," walked the red carpet for the second time... "Everybody Knows" is a film directed by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi!
Asghar Farhadi, best known for works such as *Nader and Simin: A Separation* and *The Salesman*…

Originally, "Everyone Knows" had a chance to be the opening film of this year's festival, but... Shen Yan brought "Parasite" instead...

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A large part of the Cannes red carpet is prepared for celebrities who want to crash and burn the red carpet!

Every year, L'Oréal Paris brings its own team of celebrities to the Cannes red carpet.

Li Yuchun, Guan Xiaotong, and Xi Mengyao, who walked the Cannes red carpet this year, as well as Wang Yuan, who just arrived in Cannes, were all invited by L'Oréal Paris to attend the Cannes Film Festival…

Fan Bingbing is an exception; she did it for the movie "355"...

The origin of this film is quite simple: Jessica Chastain, the lead actress, turned down Mission: Impossible 5 and, incidentally, suggested to Simon Kinberg the idea of ​​a female-led spy movie.

—Jessica Chastain was originally slated to play the female lead in Mission: Impossible 5, but she declined the role because she was unwilling to undergo six months of training beforehand.

Based on this, Universal Pictures brought together a group of female stars, wanting to shoot a spy action movie that focuses on women.

After all, releasing female action movies has been an easy shortcut to success in recent years. With the high looks of the actresses and some action elements, a movie can be completed quickly.

When the film was first produced in May 2018, it was a top-selling product. Universal Pictures paid $20 million for the US rights, while Huayi Brothers paid $20 million for the Chinese distribution rights!
That's right, the purpose of coming to Cannes is to sell copyrights.

Of course, riding the wave of trending topics is also important!
What was the most talked-about event on the first day of Cannes?
Of course, it's the opening ceremony film!
I promptly attended the premiere of "Parasite"...

The official languages ​​of the Cannes Film Festival are English and French subtitles. Generally, English films do not require subtitles, but French films require English subtitles…

Of course, in practice, it doesn't necessarily have to be done according to the rules!
Parasite was shown with English subtitles, and French subtitles were also created to match the English subtitles...

Try to make it as easy for the audience to understand as possible!

Shen Yan once watched a movie at the Venice Film Festival. It was a family film, but damn it, there were no subtitles. You had to guess the plot and the dialogue, which was exhausting to watch!
Shen Yan welcomed Fan Bingbing's arrival, as well as Jia Zhangke, Li Yuchun, Guan Xiaotong, Xi Mengyao, and Wang Yuan.

After all, once you're abroad, you're all one of our own.

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One great thing about Cannes is that they don't hold press conferences for films before their release...

Fan Bingbing doesn't know much about "Parasite," only that it's a great script—Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock took pay cuts to star in it…

Shen Yan didn't promote it much, only mentioning that it was "like an absurd fable in a stage play!"

So, let's just watch a movie!

The plot of the movie "Parasite" is very simple. The first forty minutes of the movie are similar to a wish-fulfillment novel: highlighting the protagonist's satisfaction in reaping the benefits through his cleverness...

This feeling stems from the fact that the Javier Baden family gradually infiltrated and occupied positions in the upper class through their intelligence and wit, achieving a seemingly rags-to-riches process from the bottom to the top.

Viewers follow the perspectives of Harvey family members Caleb Landry Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Jennifer Connelly, and Javier Bardem as they witness how the family uses disguise and lies to infiltrate the wealthy Matthew McConaughey family. The strategies and successes they demonstrate in this process satisfy and excite many viewers.

Seeing this, Fan Bingbing was a little confused…

Isn't this a crime movie?
Where was the crime committed?
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